mkjv - Job:12-14

mkjv@Job:12:1 @ And Job answered and said,

mkjv@Job:12:2 @ For truly you [are] the people, and wisdom will die with you.

mkjv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall [short] of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?

mkjv@Job:12:4 @ I [am] a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one [is] a mockery;

mkjv@Job:12:5 @ a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; [it is] ready for those with slipping feet.

mkjv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God [are] secure, in whatever God brings to their hand.

mkjv@Job:12:7 @ But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;

mkjv@Job:12:8 @ or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; and the fish of the sea shall declare [it] to you;

mkjv@Job:12:9 @ who of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

mkjv@Job:12:10 @ In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, [even] of man?

mkjv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words? And does not the mouth taste its food?

mkjv@Job:12:12 @ With the aged [is] wisdom, and understanding in length of days.

mkjv@Job:12:13 @ With Him [is] wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding.

mkjv@Job:12:14 @ Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.

mkjv@Job:12:15 @ Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

mkjv@Job:12:16 @ With Him [is] strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver [are] His.

mkjv@Job:12:17 @ He leads wise men away stripped, and makes the judges fools.

mkjv@Job:12:18 @ He cuts away the bonds of kings, and binds their loins with a girdle.

mkjv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

mkjv@Job:12:20 @ [He] removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

mkjv@Job:12:21 @ He pours scorn on princes, and unties the belt of the mighty.

mkjv@Job:12:22 @ He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings the shadow of death to light.

mkjv@Job:12:23 @ He gives greatness to the nations, and destroys them. He spreads out the nations, and leads them away.

mkjv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no path.

mkjv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like [a] drunkard.

mkjv@Job:13:1 @ Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

mkjv@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I know [also]; I do not fall [short] of you.

mkjv@Job:13:3 @ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case before God.

mkjv@Job:13:4 @ But you [are] imputers of lies; you [are] all worthless healers.

mkjv@Job:13:5 @ Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.

mkjv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

mkjv@Job:13:7 @ Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

mkjv@Job:13:8 @ Will you lift up His person, or contend for God?

mkjv@Job:13:9 @ Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?

mkjv@Job:13:10 @ He will surely blame you, if you secretly lift up persons.

mkjv@Job:13:11 @ Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you?

mkjv@Job:13:12 @ Your remembered sayings [are] like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.

mkjv@Job:13:13 @ Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may.

mkjv@Job:13:14 @ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

mkjv@Job:13:15 @ Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

mkjv@Job:13:16 @ He also [is] my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

mkjv@Job:13:17 @ Listen carefully to my words, and let what I say be in your ears.

mkjv@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have set [my] cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.

mkjv@Job:13:19 @ Who [is] he [that] will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire.

mkjv@Job:13:20 @ Only do not do two [things] to me; then I will not hide myself from You.

mkjv@Job:13:21 @ Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not Your fear make me afraid.

mkjv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer You me.

mkjv@Job:13:23 @ How many [are] my iniquities and sins? Make known my transgressions and my sin.

mkjv@Job:13:24 @ Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy?

mkjv@Job:13:25 @ Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble?

mkjv@Job:13:26 @ For You write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the sins of my youth.

mkjv@Job:13:27 @ You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

mkjv@Job:13:28 @ And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.

mkjv@Job:14:1 @ Man born of woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.

mkjv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

mkjv@Job:14:3 @ And You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with You.

mkjv@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? No one!

mkjv@Job:14:5 @ For his days [are] fixed, the number of his months [is] with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

mkjv@Job:14:6 @ look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

mkjv@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease.

mkjv@Job:14:8 @ Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,

mkjv@Job:14:9 @ [yet] at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

mkjv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where [is] he?

mkjv@Job:14:11 @ [As] the waters fail from the sea, and a river falls away and dries up,

mkjv@Job:14:12 @ so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens [are] no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.

mkjv@Job:14:13 @ Who will grant [that] You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

mkjv@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.

mkjv@Job:14:15 @ You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall have a desire to the work of Your hands.

mkjv@Job:14:16 @ For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?

mkjv@Job:14:17 @ My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity.

mkjv@Job:14:18 @ And surely a falling mountain crumbles away, and the rock moves out of its place.

mkjv@Job:14:19 @ The waters wear away the stones; the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; and You cause the hope of man to perish.

mkjv@Job:14:20 @ You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.

mkjv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark [it].

mkjv@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh is pained within him; and his soul mourns over him.

mkjv@Job:15:1 @ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,